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• Preparing For a Year of Learning the Russian Language

  … is designed in a way that it covers not only Russian language learning in terms of reading, writing, speaking, understanding and using Russian grammar but also field specific scientific terms in engineering, social sciences, and humanitarian programs. For the first couple of months the schedule will be very intensive. We spend a…

  27.10.2022

• The Sea That Was

  … accumulate in the Small Sea, and the level here has increased, whilst the salinity has decreased. In Karakalpakstan, Charzhou Abdirov, the Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, has been doing a lot to improve the ecological situation for the population of the coastal areas of the Aral Sea. Since 1994, in addition to conducting m…

  06.06.2022

• ITMO Graduate ‪Igor Petranevsky on His Studies and Career Path

  …hing or lend a hand. No one ever said no, just sometimes they referred me to a person who could help me even better. Shortly after this, I got my first experiences with big science: presentations at national and international conferences and the publishing of my first articles. As opposed to flipping a coin, doing a Master's program in intelligent technologies …

  21.04.2022

• ITMO Student on Study Abroad in the USA

  …or two letters of reference. Also, it is possible to attach 3 certificates and 3 awards. The most significant document here is a motivational letter. There is almost the whole science of writing a good letter! Later, if a person successfully passed this stage, they would have to take part in virtual interviews with organizations of the program and finalists of pre…

  04.02.2022

• The Women of Computer Science

  …orn in London to Annabella Milbanke and the poet Lord Byron. As a child Ada, like her mother, received mathematical training. Her interest in what would now be called computer science arose at the age of 17 when she met the mathematician Charles Babbage, who demonstrated to her a part of his proposed mechanical computer, known as the Analytical Engine. Ten years l…

  18.01.2022

• Differences in the Education Systems of the United States and Russia

  … 8th grade, students receive the freedom to choose the subjects they want to learn. The minimum school requirements for a diploma include mathematics courses — 2 years, social sciences — 3 years, natural sciences — 2 years, English — 4 years. The 13th year of study is optional, students take it if they want to study the subjects in whic…

  14.01.2022

• Phygitality in Art During Times of AI

  …coding. It has been relevant not only for producing hybrid work, but for opening discussion on the field, exhibitions and events that introduce the public and other artists to sciences and humanities as an evolution of added complexity layers for thought; where machines learn from humans and vice versa. Viewers crave new experiences that surprise them and somehow tri…

  21.10.2021

• Breakthroughs in Biology and Their Impact on Our Future

  …er bears can survive freezing, total dehydration, pressure, and radiation. Researchers have been trying to understand extremophiles' stress tolerance for a long time. Recently scientists have found out that tardigrades might have special proteins associated with the cell nucleus to effectively protect and repair DNA. That is how they can survive everywhere. And who k…

  09.09.2021

• Increase Your Data Quality Using AI

  …them in production are of high quality too, but, just like in the case of a training dataset, production images rarely meet these requirements. Not so long ago a group of data scientists proposed a solution — Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks (SRGAN) to increase quality of pictures before putting them into the network for processing. The main differ…

  22.06.2021

• Three Books on Medicine

  …diseases, in vitro fertilization, and cloning. Unfortunately, a terrible ethical crime lies behind this breakthrough. The author suggests thinking about whether doctors and scientists can make decisions about our bodies, their parts, and biomaterials. Who and how should gain permission to use a patient’s body in case of their death? Why do bioethical questions con…

  04.06.2021